A requirement whose violation has a finite execution prefix that no continuation can repair. Two software threads simultaneously inside a protected critical section already violate mutual exclusion; later leaving does not erase that violation. This contrasts with a liveness property, for which a long finite wait alone does not establish failure.[ref]
Defining Liveness by Bowen Alpern and others. pp. 181–182: finite irremediable prefixes
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